Local Sports

It was certainly a Spring Burnout last weekend at the Sechelt Airport as the Sunshine Coast Drag Racing Association (SCDRA) began celebrating 20 years of drag racing on the Coast.

The Sunshine Coast Skating Club congratulates Skater of the Month for May, Isabella Jones. Isabella is 16 years old and attends Chatelech Secondary School.

This Friday, nearly 50 human and wind powered vessels – rowboats, sailboats, kayaks, catamarans and more – will be setting off from Port Townsend, Wash., to take part in the Race to Alaska.

At 225 pounds, Theo Kontekakis of Gibsons will take on 250-pound National Bronze Medalist Sukh Sahota of Surrey in a heavyweight special attraction at Saturday’s War On The Shore 6 boxing event in Gibsons.

The War On The Shore 6 amateur boxing event will take place on Saturday, June 1, at the Gibsons and Area Community Centre.

Former Gibsons Minor Baseball Association All-Star and current University of Fraser Valley Cascades pitcher Evan Petersen helped lead the Cascades to their first ever Canadian College Baseball Conference Championship.

Rain and a very steep hill did not dampen the enthusiasm of cyclists competing in the first annual School Hill Sufferfest last Tuesday, May 14.

The 25th anniversary of the Gibsons Pigs rugby club’s 1994 championship season will be celebrated at a party in August.

‘Danger’ Dane Hanna has clinched his second victory in as many years at the 18th annual Attack of Danger Bay, the longboarding race and festival that draws thousands of spectators and international talent to Pender Harbour on the May Day long weekend

The Gibsons Regatta is making a comeback.